Handle for table-cutlery



(No Model.)

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HANDLE POR TABLE GUTLBRY.

PatentedApr. 9,1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

XVILLIAM WILSON LEE, OF NORTHAMPTN, MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLE FOR TABLE-OUTLERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,181, dated April 9,1889.

Application tiled September 7, 1888. Serial No. 284,834. (No model.)

1o a table-knife provided with a handle embodying my invention, and Fig.2 is a transverse section of the said handle.

My invention is a compound handle consisting of a metal shell, which isof substantially I5 the same form as the finished handle,land a shell ofplastic material which covers and is sustained by the metal shell, theobject of my invention being to produce hollow handles which have theappearance of rubber, ivory,

zo or the like with a saving of plastic material and without undueWeight.

l'litherto, as is Well known to all skilled in the art, knives and'forks have been commonly made with handles of rubber or the like at- 25 taehed to tangs fast to the knife or fork, and

this method of construction has necessitated the use of an undue amountof rubber or else an undue Weight by reason of too large a tang.

In the dra-Wings, a is the hollow met-al shell,

go and b the shell of plastic material, the tang being fast to theblade, entering and filling the blade end of the metal shell, and themetal shell and blade being united in Ways too Well known to all skilledin the art to require de- 35 scription.

ln practice the shell a is Wrapped With plastic compound, which ismolded in place in a manner Which will be plain Without description toall skilled in the art.

The main advantages of my invention are the production of a handle whichis in all respects as desirable as any rubber handle hefore known, andAin many respects greatly preferable, and which is cheaper than thoseheretofore made.

I am aware of patents to Wingfield No. 294,558, of March 4, 1884, andofv Beals and Thomas, No. 222,229, of December 2, 1879, and disclaim allthat is shown in them, for they describe a handle of plastic materialheld to a tang which is fast to a blade. l am also aware that it is notnew to use a shell of metal secured to a tang fast to a blade, for thatis shown in the patent to Brown and Osgood, No. 209,649, of 1878, and ldisclaim all that is shown in that patent, my invention differingradically from anything shown in any of those patents, for the reasonthat l secure a thin shell of plastic material to a tang fast to aVbla-de by means of a metal shell, which serves not only to'secure theshell of plastic material to the tang of the blade, but also to supportthat shell and make it fit for use as one part or" a compound handle.

The compound handle above described, made up of the shells a and b, theinner shell, a, being of metal and connected to the tang of theinstrument, and the outer shell, b, being of plastic material and moldedupon the inner shell, a., all as and for the purpose specified.

VILLIAM VTILSN LEE.

Vitnesses:

S. P. PECE, W. INI. COCHRAN.

